"Edwin (Bennett), an innocent and shy young man, is hit by a nude man falling from a high-rise building while carrying a chandelier."

"Edwin's penis is mutilated in the accident and has to be amputated; the falling man is killed. Edwin becomes the recipient of the world's first penis transplant: he receives the very large penis of the womanizer killed in the same accident. With his new bit of anatomy (which he names 'Percy'), Edwin follows the womanizer's footsteps, meeting all his women friends, before settling happily with the donor's mistreated widow."

The plot summary of the 1971 movie "Percy," which I happened upon because I was reading the Wikipedia entry for the singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock — "Hitchcock was born in Paddington, London, England, son of novelist Raymond Hitchcock (writer of Percy)." I was reading about Hitchcock because his is one of the names on the list of upcoming shows at the Stoughton Opera House. I've been there only twice — to see Taj Mahal and then Jim Kweskin with Geoff Muldaur — and I'd like to make a better effort to notice shows I might like to see.

Do you think having the name "Hitchcock" makes it more likely that you'd write a story about having a penis sewn on — hitching a cock?

Friday afternoon thoughts. Do you have any? I feel like watching "Percy." For one thing, it has Elke Sommer and Britt Ekland. I've pretty much always thought they were the same person — Elk/Ekl... For another thing, it has a soundtrack by The Kinks!

But, wait. Here's the trailer. It looks terrible...



But at least I learned — I couldn't tell from Wikipedia — which one of the 2 penis-havers was carrying the chandelier. (Why a chandelier? Did it provide occasions to make jokes on the word "hung"?)

Fortunately, you can listen to the entirety of The Kinks' "Percy" on YouTube.